New Buzzcocks album on Merge Records.....

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...anyone heard it? Thoughts please!

A wild departure in style....or the same old dependability?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

the same old dependability

Considering how the flagship band of said label makes a career out of never changing...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

here are two tracks from the Merge Records site:
Je
rk
Friends

― rex jr., Tuesday, 18 March 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

that should be "Jerk" there.

― rex jr., Tuesday, 18 March 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

They're touring soon. I'm not sure whether going will irrevocably ruin them for me.

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

They are opening for Pearl Jam on some american tour dates i think.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Considering how the flagship band of said label makes a career out of never changing...

ned, 1996 called and wants it's joke back.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

They are opening for Pearl Jam on some american tour dates i think.

This makes me sad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)

why does that make you sad? just curious.
m.

― msp, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

It just seems like a haplessly mismatched tour....and the `cocks deserve better.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

ned, 1996 called and wants it's joke back.

Nothing changes much in seven years, does it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

If it's the "new album" I downloaded once last month, listened to and deleted immediately, I think it's safe (and sad) to say that sonically they've turned into the bands that imitate the bands that imitate them.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing changes much in seven years, does it?

their last 7 years (of a 14 year career) have been spent mining a different sound then the first 7. your statement stinks of someone who doesn't know any better.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I admit I haven't paid close attention to Superchunk for many a moon but what I've heard of the recent stuff -- and I couldn't even tell you what it was called, whatever I did hear -- sure didn't sound very much like Mac and company suddenly saw the light. Besides, I thought that's why he used Portastatic as an outlet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.premier.com.tw/images/Q-tips.JPG

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

;-D

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Amazing! But they'll tickle my brain and disturb the voices in my head. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm... I read gygax!'s initial "challenge" a little differently: Are Superchunk Merge's flagship band anymore? Surely they're eclipsed by the Magnetic F!elds these days (who surely can't be accused of making a career out of playing the same song over and over)... Now, the MFs and Buzzcocks on tour together. That would be mighty fine.

BTW - saw them play about five years ago and they were pretty damn fine. Now a lot may have changed since then, but... The chances of their being pathetic old codgers five years ago was pretty high, and they somehow managed to dodge the bullet. Playing with Pearl Jam, on the other hand....

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely they're eclipsed by the Magnetic F!elds these days

I believe the Fields are actually now signed to Nonesuch, so get ready for the collaboration with Kronos Quartet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd imagine Spoon are probably Merge's foremost act at the moment

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

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